Railroad industry

The B&O Railroad Museum shares and preserves the storied legacy and experiences of American railroading. Come see where it began!

Planning and construction of the Altoona Works began in 1850, and upon completion, the shops began assembling locomotive and

The marriage of the railroad and steel, coke, and other industries from past to present

The Pennsylvania Railroad regarded itself as the "Standard Railroad Of The World" and for several decades was the most powerful in the industry.

Canadian Pacific Railway names interchange in honour of Chinese rail ...

industrial narrow gauge light railways voie etroite feldbahnen

Caption on image: Aloha Mill & Lumber Co., Aloha, Wash. C. Kinsey Photo, Seattle. No. 3 PH Coll 516.16

https://t.co/4vaDYLOm2k is a web-based resource covering the American railroad industry.

On this day in 1869, the two sides of the first transcontinental railroad met in Promontory, Utah. What started as a competition between two dueling companies, ended with nearly 2,000 miles of track and the first railroad line that stretched the entire width of the United States. Learn more in our Trains Unit!

View of train wreckage after the Pennsylvania Railroad train, the Congressional Limited, crashed at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia on 6th September 1943. (Photo by Ralph Morse